The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline

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ID3665699
AutoresIrina Filatova (0000-0001-5449-4980, University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas313-331
Fecha de publicación2023-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02533952.2023.2232626
OpenAlexW4384156165
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

History as an academic discipline is going through a methodological crisis, caused by the decolonising revolution in historiography. Having emerged in the 1980s–2000s, the present-day decolonial theories have created a new dominant paradigm in the public consciousness and in a whole complex of academic disciplines. The aim of the decolonisation of the mind is to liberate these disciplines, first of all the humanities, from any vestiges of Eurocentrism. However, decolonialists operate in the realm of ideas and methodologies some of which are incompatible with the existence of history as an academic discipline, and which have long been rejected by researchers. A comparison of decolonising ideas in Africa with similar ideas in Russia helps to understand their origins and the detrimental effect that their uncritical acceptance may have on history as an academic discipline and on popular consciousness and politics

Consciousness · Decolonization · Discipline · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Historiography · Intellectual history · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · World Systems and Global Transformations